Z71.85
Z71.85: Encounter for immunization safety counseling
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Z71.85 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for encounter for immunization safety counseling. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Z71.85 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- encounter for health counseling related to travel (Z71.84)
Code also
Both codes may be needed to describe the encounter fully. Sequencing depends on the reason for the visit.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Encounter for vaccine product safety counseling
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Z71.85
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Counseling›immunization safety
- Counseling›vaccine product safety
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under Z71.8
- Z71.81Spiritual or religious counseling
- Z71.82Exercise counseling
- Z71.83Encounter for nonprocreative genetic counseling
- Z71.84Encounter for health counseling related to travel
- Z71.87Encounter for pediatric-to-adult transition counseling
- Z71.88Encounter for counseling for socioeconomic factors
- Z71.89Other specified counseling